Insight for the Algorithmic Enterprise

STAC® provides technology research and testing tools based on standards developed by the STAC Benchmark™ Council,a group that includes leading financial firms and other "algorithmic enterprises" as well as key technology vendors.

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Topics included new approaches to realtime analytics, technology learnings from other latency-sensitive industries, new approaches to compute-intensive workloads, tips for developing and deploying parallel applications, advances in low-latency networking, and new approaches to financial time series data and data for regulatory reporting.

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Some people learn their word-of-the-day from calendars and web sites; I am lucky enough to interact with financial services technologists who bring their own colorful language. As an example, the response I got from one when I asked about SQL-on-Hadoop: chimera.

Our recent research on “big data” use cases uncovered many large financial services firms using Hadoop and other technologies to build “multi-tenant” analytics platforms—that is, shared environments meant to support multiple independent applications. In some cases, these platforms are being built in advance of demand, trying to preempt individual businesses from deploying